For years now, the liberal media have been telling us the country is in a “cold civil war” or a “neo-civil war” because people and policies they don’t like have popularity. But according to CNN’s Anderson Cooper during the network’s January 6 primetime special (Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later) it was the folks at “other networks” – aka Fox News – that were “relishing the idea” of sparking another civil war in America.
Cooper’s grotesque comment came during a conversation with his panel of all Democratic members of Congress, but was specifically directed at Representatives Jason Crow (D-CO) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ) because they both had served overseas (Crow was a captain in Army and Gallego was a corporal in the Marines):
The very people who are kind of promoting that here on podcasts right now and, you know, other networks, who probably have not done service and have not seen it for themselves, they will be swept up in it and destroyed as well as everybody else. I mean, that is not anything anybody should even talk about or wish ever to think about.
For context, CNN’s habit of using the phrase “other networks” when they want to vaguely hint at Fox News and their purported actions.
“For people who have been in combat, for you two who have seen what civil wars look like up close, who have seen what looks like -- what it looks like up close when there are the tribalization of countries, the polarization,” Cooper noted. “There's a lot of people who throw around the term ‘civil war.’ And some on podcasts seem to relish the idea of the destruction of society.”
Over 45 minutes later, Cooper was speaking to Democratic Maryland Representative Jamie Raskin about grief and healing (since Raskin was in the Capitol the day of the riot shortly after his son passed away) when he suggested certain “media” were keeping us from coming together:
But that is one of the things of the difficulty of not only COVID but all trauma is that it isolates you. In your grief, you feel isolated. You feel no one understands what you're going through. And this country is polarized and we are all isolated from one another by a virus, by the media we watch, whatever. How do you come together? How does this country bind its wounds and move forward?
CNN never sees the hatred they spew daily as a problem.
Yet before Cooper could dive into his dirty smearing of Fox News, Jake Tapper had his go at sliming “other channels” by suggesting they were against the Capitol police officers who fought against the violent rioters:
Let me just say while others in other channels and other parts of the country, people might besmirch you all and the people that you worked with to hold the line that day, every one of you is a hero. And you stood up not just to protect people, you stood up for democracy. You did, of course, save the lives of people serving in that building today, but you also served the republic.
Speaking of bravery, why couldn’t either of these men speak up and name names? Who was calling for a civil war? Who was against the police? That’s because if they did, then they would need to prove their accusations.
CNN’s underhanded attacks against Fox News was made possible because of lucrative sponsorships from Liberty Mutual and Panera Bread. Their contact information is linked.
The transcript is below, click "expand" to read:
CNN’s Live From the Capitol: January 6th, One Year Later
January 6, 2022
8:44:49 p.m. Eastern(…)
JAKE TAPPER: Let me just say while others in other channels and other parts of the country, people might besmirch you all and the people that you worked with to hold the line that day, every one of you is a hero. And you stood up not just to protect people, you stood up for democracy. You did, of course, save the lives of people serving in that building today, but you also served the republic.
Thank you for what you did, every one of you, thank you. It was an incredible act of bravery. It's not forgotten.
(…)
9:07:29 p.m. Eastern
ANDERSON COOPER (to Reps. Jason Crow (D-CO) and Ruben Gallego (D-AZ)): For people who have been in combat, for you two who have seen what civil wars look like up close, who have seen what looks like -- what it looks like up close when there are the tribalization of countries, the polarization. There's a lot of people who throw around the term “civil war.” And some on podcasts seem to relish the idea of the destruction of society.
You both have seen up close, you know, through the window of a Humvee and out on the streets, what happens when a society collapses.
The very people who are kind of promoting that here on podcasts right now and, you know, other networks, who probably have not done service and have not seen it for themselves, they will be swept up in it and destroyed as well as everybody else. I mean, that is not anything anybody should even talk about or wish ever to think about.
(…)
9:53:52 p.m. Eastern
COOPER (to Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD)): But that is one of the things of the difficulty of not only COVID but all trauma is that it isolates you. In your grief, you feel isolated. You feel no one understands what you're going through. And this country is polarized and we are all isolated from one another by a virus, by the media we watch, whatever. How do you come together? How does this country bind its wounds and move forward?
(…)
